University of Texas at El Paso President Diana Natalicio told The Texas Tribune on Wednesday that she has not been told why a high-profile boxing match on her campus had been canceled.

Popular fighter Julio César Chávez Jr. of Mexico and Andy Lee of Ireland were scheduled to duke it out for the WBC world middleweight championship in Sun Bowl Stadium on June 16 — but, as of now, that much-anticipated event will not be happening.

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April 26, 2012 @ 9:17 a.m.

JC DemocratofTejas

Yeah OK---Texas Tribune fails. The following article should be top of the newslines, even a day late:

Blah blah blah...WHERE IS YOUR NEWS THAT GREG ABBOTT GAVE OUT MILLIONS OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS OF TEXANS IN HIS EFFORT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST VOTERS, AND PUSH VOTER IDS??? WHY ISN'T THIS BIG NEW TO THE TRIBUNE??

A legal brief filed by opponents of the Texas Voter Photo ID law reveals that Attorney General Greg Abbott exposed millions of Texas voters’ full Social Security numbers to possible theft and abuse.

The brief, filed Monday, April 23, 2012 states:

“… after vigorously fighting the production of data containing full Social Security numbers, Texas mistakenly produced to Intervenors data from the VR [voter registration] data base that contained full Social Security numbers.” ( Defendant-Intervenors’ Motion for Clarification of the Trial Schedule, 4/23/12, page seven.)

Texas voters escaped public release of their Social Security numbers only because of the vigilance of conscientious lawyers working against the Voter Photo ID bill. Rather than attach the files to documents circulated to other attorneys or expose them to access by the general public, opposing counsel immediately notified the AG’s office of the bungled release of private data. Abbott then, at the expense of Texas taxpayers, sent a courier to both New York and Washington, DC to retrieve the files. As the brief details:

“Intervenors immediately notified the State and, at the State’s request, Intervenors ceased all review of the VR data that had been provided, with the State sending a representative from Texas to collect the VR data disks personally.” (Defendant-Intervenors’ Motion for Clarification of the Trial Schedule, 4/23/12, page seven.)

Abbott’s negligence constitutes one of the largest risks of public identity theft in recent memory. Last year, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs received bitter criticism for releasing the Social Security numbers of 3.5 million Texans. In this most recent case, had the files not been handled carefully and responsibly by legal counsel opposing Abbott, as many as 13 million Texas voters’ Social Security numbers could have been exposed to potential illegal misuse and identity theft."